An Isle of Wight boxing club enjoyed a strong start to the new season.<\/p>\n
Newport Phoenix Boxers began the fresh campaign with members gaining places in national championships and winning starts at Lord Mountbatten Show in Southsea.<\/p>\n
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Making his debut, 13-year old Layton Lea impressed officials in a three-round skills match, setting up anticipation for his first full bout.<\/p>\n
Bobby Mills, 13, took on Joe Henderson from Ashford ABC, Kent, taking the first round with solid, fast attacks.<\/p>\n
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Bobby grew in confidence throughout the fight and delivered accurate counter punches, resulting in two standing counts and stopping his opponent.<\/p>\n
Rhydian Cobb, 18, took on Callum Dlubak-Daly from Fighters Republic ABC in Slough, the two fighters giving it their all throughout the bout.<\/p>\n
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It was Rhydian who won out, however, causing a standing count in the second round with a layback uppercut.<\/p>\n
The Islander won by a unanimous decision.<\/p>\n
Ade Obolo, 18, was last up and made his debut in the ring against the more experienced Rich Zarins, also 18.<\/p>\n
Ade used his skillset to take all three rounds in the contest, and win his first bout.<\/p>\n
Zoe Portsmouth received a bye to this year’s National Development Championship Semi Final at the end of October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Isle of Wight boxing club enjoyed a strong start to the new season. Newport Phoenix Boxers began…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[96689,703,49,48,96691,96692,96690,96693,82],"class_list":["post-194513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-bobby-mills","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-joe-henderson","tag-lord-mountbatten","tag-newport-phoenix-boxers","tag-rhydian-cobb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}